The rape of Meya Åberg is remniscent of the murder of Iryna Zarutska. The poor girl worked at a fast food place, and was on the way home when she was attacked by a violent African. Iryna was on the way from her job in a pizzeria, while Meya Åberg worked at McDonalds.

The rape-enabling leftist policies especially hurt the lower class, hard-working women and girls. Richer women would not have to walk or take the subway home after a late shift. They would drive home from their office job in the afternoon. And then have a glass of wine with their friends and talk about the threat of "the far right".
And in both cases the perpetrator was given absurdly lenient sentences by woke, upper class, female judges.

Women's risk of being gang-raped in Europe would be reduced to just ~25% of the current level if there had been no Muslim / African mass immigration.

The Muslim / African mass immigration has made Europe less safe for women to an extreme degree. A similar study from Sweden found that the number of assault rapes would be reduced to just 16% of the current level without the Muslim / African mass immigration.

Trump has fired Lisa Cook from the board of the Federal Reserve.

This is great news, because Lisa Cook is an unqualified, inept diversity hire.

Her publication record is thin, and focused mostly on racial issues, not monetary policy. As economist John Cochrane noted: "[In her publication] you will find essentially nothing related to monetary policy, monetary effects on employment, interest rates, inflation, financial regulation or other traditional Fed topics."

She was clearly hired for DEI reasons, to be the first Black woman on the board.

Worse still, she is not only unqualified but an unusually inept researcher.

Her most publicized paper, published in 2014, claimed that Black patents declined in 1900 due to racial violence.

But the decline had nothing to do with that. It was simply an artifact of her own dataset.

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Explanation:
Cook’s dataset included 726 inventors, compiled from several sources. The single biggest source was the 1900 World’s Fair, which showcased nearly 400 African American inventors. Crucially, that record ended at 1900.

This meant her dataset was front-loaded: almost half of the data points came from a source that stopped at exactly 1900. Naturally, once that source ended, the data appeared to collapse.

Instead of recognizing that this was an artifact of her own collection, Cook attributed the decline to racial violence and lynchings.

Later, The Brookings institute looked at the number of Black patents, and identified ~50,000 patents over this same period, instead of the 726. And they found no significant decline around year 1900, proving that this was just an artifact of her data set.

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This embarassing blunder gave her a lot of publicity, and caused her to fail upwards, ultimately being hired for the important job in the board of the Federal Reserve. Here is the figure from her study, showing a collapse in the number of Black patents recorded exactly at 1900, when the world's fair exhibition took place.

In 2013, the median German voter was in favor of somewhat less immigration

But all the political parties were in favor of more mass immigration, and that's what Germany got. Every year since 2013, Germany has had more than a million immigrants, and in 2015 more than 2 million.

This is against what the people want, and it is a failure of democracy. AfD is the party that is closest to the median voter on the topic of immigration, and yet in the press they are denounced as extremists, and there are attempts to declare the party illegal and ban it.

The price of beef here in Denmark has risen by more than 70% over the last few years, and is now at about $20 per kg.

A main reason is a large greenhouse gas tax imposed by the Danish government, that especially hits beef, due to the methane emissions from cows.

But this is a misunderstanding. Emissions from cows form a cycle where they are emitted, broken down, and absorbed again by the crops. It doesn't add up over time, and in a timeframe of decades the impact on the climate will be essentially zero. Climate is impacted by emitting things into the atmosphere that are not in an ongoing cycle, ie fossil fuels.

Furthermore the government wants to force all farmers to give the cows the experimental enzyme inhibitor Bovaer, which changes the reactions in the cows gut to emit less methane. Which again, doesn't matter for climate change. If a company buys goods and then sells them, it wouldn’t make sense to tax it on every sale without deducting the cost of the goods it purchased. This would make the business unviable.

The same logic applies to this emission tax: it charges for the greenhouse gasses emitted, but doesn’t give credit for CO₂ absorbed (carbon reuptake). It’s like taxing sales without counting the cost of purchases. Obviously non-sensible.

This is madness. Look at how much it took for the British authorities to save this girl from the Pakistani rape gangs.

She went to the police, gave a six hour report, and provided DNA evidence. Still nothing. Just back to being raped five times a day. Having a system that is not able to protect 12-year-old-girls from being raped is very bad.

Having mass immigration of child-rape loving Pakistanis is very bad.

And having both at the same time is even worse

A national audit on grooming gangs in the U.K. has been released today.

It shows the the perpetrators are majority "Asian" and Pakistani.

politicsuk.com/wp-content/upl… The Guardian and others who accused people of racism for calling out the Pakistani rape gangs have semen on their hands

Wait, what in the world is this? Black and minority ethnic jurors are so anti-White biased that they are useless as jurors?

Does this hold up in other samples? If true it puts in doubt our whole justice system.

It's from this long report:
ucl.ac.uk/judicial-insti… Could we get a second look at whether or not our justice system is in fact completely broken in multiethnic socities? Seems worth getting a second sample about

I've started watching the Netflix miniseries about the Central Park 5.

With the knowledge that they are quite certainly guilty (see ie the Armstrong report), it could be interesting how the regime propaganda will spin it.

🧵 It opens with an almost comically tiny boy actor portraying Kevin Richardson

New paper from David Reich lab:

West Eurasian / European populations have had strong recent genetic selection for a number of traits.

Among these, positive selection for intelligence and education. Negative selection for body fat percentage, darker skin color, and schizophrenia Paper
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…

x.com/i/article/1824… As mentioned in the post, @razibkhan made excellent annotations on the header image, showing the genetic history of milk drinking.

See also the post on this blog that goes into deeper genetic detail:
razibkhan.com/p/got-milk-get…

There is a sensational new TV documentary in Denmark called Den sorte svane (The Black Swan), in which a mole provides hidden footage from the criminal underworld.

One character we meet is Fasar. He was previously declared guilty by a jury for crimes that amounted to 58 years in prison. But he did not serve a day in prison because he was deemed "psychotic at the time of the crime". This happened multiple times! In the show, we see him laughing about it and describing how the judge said, "Can't you see how vulnerable this person is? I will give no punishment."

During the period that the TV mole investigation was running, it seems that he probably eliminated a witness.
The TV program:


A secondary source for some of the claims (in Danish):
tv.tv2.dk/den-sorte-svane
nyheder.tv2.dk/2024-05-21-kat…

Academia is extremely left-wing. (Figure from Legatum.) Right-wing academics tend to see DEI statements as an ideological litmus test. But left-wing academics do not, and they are the vast majority.

A thread about the Musk-Lemon interview. Seemingly unlike Musk, I think there was a good deal of interesting stuff here! There is value in talking across political sides, even if it can feel adversarial.

🧵 Is CNN left?

Elon Musk
I saw segment. CNN is generally considered Left, yeah.

Don Lemon
Why do you say that?

Elon Musk
Why do I say CNN is generally considered Left? I think if you look at any sort of media survey of what is on the Left or Right, I think they would say, for example, Fox is on the Right and CNN is on the Left.

Elon is right that surveys say this:

Asylum seekers and immigrants from Morocco and Horn of Africa costs the Dutch state €475,000-€625,000 per immigrant.

This can't be the best use of resources! Even if you are only interested in using the tax money to help non-Dutch people, you can save a life for ~€5,000. The native Dutch population is projected to decline, while the number of costly non-Western immigrants will continue to increase:

The complaints in this thread are unwarranted.

The point of the figure is to show that regarding interracial crime, white-on-Black is the smallest, but the most covered in the media.

The figure does not illustrate other aspects, but it doesn't claim to.

https://twitter.com/kareem_carr/status/1655614482432012289

He says that this table is vastly superior to the bar chart.

But what if what you want to know is how much interracial crime there are of the different categories?

That is very easy to see in the graph, and not as easy in the table.

Lisa Cook, FED board nominee, wrote a paper in 2014. It is lauded in this @paulmromer post, on Planet Money, and listed prominently on her Wikipedia.

But the paper is completely flawed, and should have not even been published.

1/n

paulromer.net/lisa-cook/ The paper is this one:
emilkirkegaard.dk/en/wp-content/…

It claims that Black Patents went down in your 1900 following increased lynchings.

About half of Democratic voters are completely unhinged about covid.

1. Would you favor having federal or state governments require that citizens temporarily live in designated facilities or locations if they refuse to get a COVID-19 vaccine? - 45%

rasmussenreports.com/public_content… 2. Would you favor a proposal for federal or state governments to fine or imprison individuals who publicly question the efficacy of the existing COVID-19 vaccines on social media? -48%

Mask mandates need to end

1. There is no evidence that they help slow community spread.

2. Even if they did help, slowing the spread slightly is not an important outcome.

1/n I was among the people early on saying that maybe masks work, and that we should try / investigate.

But that was when we didn't have much observational knowledge, and we didn't have vaccines.

I think Omicron was with high likelihood a lab leak too. And most of the world is failing *again* to take this possibility seriously.

1/n 1. It is based on a variant last seen in mid-2020. That is a very odd path for a virus to evolve naturally. But a normal one if it was investigated in a lab since then.

Another great piece

astralcodexten.substack.com/p/ivermectin-m…

Take-away:
Ivermectin doesn’t reduce mortality in COVID a significant amount (let’s say d > 0.3) in the absence of comorbid parasites: 85-90% confidence Side question: Has that NYT reporter who wrote a critical, doxxing article about Scott Alexander done anything as useful in his life as even this one blog post?